Gender Equality in Education in Rwanda:
What is happening to our Girls?
Paper presented at the South African Association of Women
Graduates Conference on “Drop-outs from School and Tertiary
Studies: What is Happening to our Girls?” Capetown, May, 2007....
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Gender Equality in Education in Rwanda:
What is happening to our Girls?
Paper presented at the South African Association of Women
Graduates Conference on “Drop-outs from School and Tertiary
Studies: What is Happening to our Girls?” Capetown, May, 2007.
Allison Huggins and Shirley K.
Randell1
Abstract
Rwanda has made enormous strides forward in improving access of boys and
girls to education at all levels, and in promoting gender equality within the
education system.
Yet girl students continue to lag behind in educational
achievement and access, particularly at the secondary and tertiary levels,
where girls’ enrolment, completion and achievement rates are lower.
Girls are
under-represented in government schools, and are instead more likely to
attend more expensive and lower quality private schools and universities.
Despite an enabling policy environment, a number of social and institutional
barriers continue to prevent girls and young women from attending school
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